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G.H.HELVEYf ST-EA M SEPARATOR FOR TRACTION ENGINES No.259,686. Patented June 20,1882.

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STEAM SEPARATOR FOR TRACTION ENGINES.

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UNITED STATES GEORGE H. HELVEY, OEHAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE HOOVEN PATENT OFF CE.

OWENS 8Z3 RENTSOHLER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STEAM-SEPARATOR FOR TRACTION-ENGINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,686, dated June 20, 1882.

Application filed October 18, 1881. (No model.) 7

To alliwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. HELvEY, of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, .have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Separators for Traction-Engines, of which the following is a specification, reference' being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tractionengine with the separator attached; Fig. 2, a vertical, and Fig. 3 a horizontal, section of the separator.

Traction engines, in running over rough roads, uphill, and downdale, have a tendency to slop the water around in the boilerand produce extraordinary priming. The boilers of such engines are small, and it isdifficultto apply the dry-pipe commonly used on locomotives, and in old engines it is almost impossible to put such dry-pipes in, as the boilers are completed and often no man-hole provided.

This invention relates to a novel construction of the device for guarding against primin gin traction-engines, as hereinafter set forth.

The device may be easily attached to old engines.

In Fig. 1, G is the motor of a traction-engine; A, the boiler, and B the steam-dome, from which the steam is usually taken. L is my improved separator, set .upon the dome and taking steam therefrom. M is the steam-pipe for supplying the engine.

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In Figs. 2 and 3 the separator is shown in section. It is formed of a single casting having base-flange R, by which it is bolted to the dome of'the boiler. P is a partition cast in the body L, and joining the body-wall below the outlet N, thus producing a downtake, Q, from near the top of the body to that outlet. The effect of the partition P as a steam-separator is the sameas if the steam-pipe M were carried up within the body, as is usually done with locomotives, except that the pipeM is in such cases carried'directly up into the bottom of the separator-body and requires dilferent joints to be made in the steam-pipe. The top boss, 0, may be used for a whistle or safety-valve or other accessory.

I claim as my invention The combination, with dome B of boiler A, of the body-casting L, attached to the dome B, and having'partition P castintegrant with the body, and having steam-outlet N, substantially as and for the purpose set forth..

GEORGE H. HELVEY. Witnesses:

J. W. SEE, J. P. OWENS.

It receives its steam from the pointN, near the base of the 

